Re: [gdm-list] String additions to 'gdm.gnome-2-30'

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:29 AM, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> wrote:
> Le lundi 21 juin 2010 à 23:00 -0400, William Jon McCann a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net> wrote:
>> > Le vendredi 11 juin 2010 à 09:09 +0200, Claude Paroz a écrit :
>> >> Le vendredi 11 juin 2010 à 01:49 +0000, GNOME Status Pages a écrit :
>> >> > This is an automatic notification from status generation scripts on:
>> >> > http://l10n.gnome.org.
>> >> >
>> >> > There have been following string additions to module 'gdm.gnome-2-30':
>> >> >
>> >> > + "Keyboard"
>> >> >     + "Language"
>> >> >     + "Session"
>> >> >
>> >> > Note that this doesn't directly indicate a string freeze break, but it
>> >> > might be worth investigating.
>> >>
>> >> Hi Jon,
>> >>
>> >> The commit 1b334350 (Remove text labels for option menus) in gnome-2-30
>> >> branch of GDM is breaking string freeze. Could this be reverted or is it
>> >> a critical fix for which an exception should be asked for?
>>
>> Sorry for the delay.  I wanted to discuss it with some other people
>> before responding.
>>
>> I think I'd prefer to ask for an exception for this one.  The string
>> change is simply removing underscores.  But the bug that it fixes is a
>> somewhat important one.  The GDM greeter, in most cases, would not fit
>> on a 1024x768 size screen before this change (even in English).
>>
>> The general bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620893
>
> I would be rather enclined to accept it, but now the time remaining for
> translators to fix these strings is short for the 2.30.2 GNOME release,
> isn't it?

Is there a way we can programmatically remove the "_" from the
existing translated strings?  Or at least get close?

Jon